# Pop goes the Weasel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [November 4, 2014, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-goes-the-weasel/703623 "2014-11-04T15:04:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-goes-the-weasel/703623/1 "2014-11-04T15:04:05Z")
[Link](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1314/what-does-pop-goes-the-weasel-mean) An anecdote of possible relevance - weasels really do go “pop” :rolleyes: Back in college, a friend called me up and said there was a ferret in his yard, that had gone up a tree, and would I come over and help him catch it? I grabbed a dip net and a ladder and went over to try. It was not a ferret, it was a least weasel. Undeterred by this, we continued in our quest. However, I had failed to consider that the skunk is a member of the weasel family; or perhaps more to the point, the weasel is a member of the skunk family. :smack: After a couple of tries, I managed to net the beast, whereupon it emitted a popping noise and a cloud of noxious fumes. :eek: I am unable to state which end of the weasel emitted the pop sound. At this point, the weasel, my friend, and I all departed the immediate area in radial directions at speed. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-goes-the-weasel/703623/2 "2014-11-04T15:18:31Z")
You broke your weasel??? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-goes-the-weasel/703623/3 "2014-11-04T18:53:58Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > You broke your weasel??? :eek: I dunno. What I read could be accurately described as a leaky weasel. It’s not as if the whole thing ruptured. ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-goes-the-weasel/703623/4 "2014-11-05T14:53:57Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > I dunno. What I read could be accurately described as a leaky weasel. It’s not as if the whole thing ruptured. Not so much a leak as a vigorous discharge. Followed by several dramatic ejaculations: “Wheew!” “Oh, God!” “Eeew!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-goes-the-weasel/703623/5 "2014-11-05T15:39:48Z")
> [@MacLir](#): > > Not so much a leak as a vigorous discharge. Technically more correct, but lacks the poetry of “leaky weasel”. > [@](#): > > Followed by several dramatic ejaculations: “Wheew!” “Oh, God!” “Eeew!” 😃 Did the weasel say all of that?😕:smack:😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-goes-the-weasel/703623/6 "2014-11-05T22:13:13Z")
Re: The article. ‘Mulberry bush’? I never heard that version. Born and raised in Southern California, I only heard the ‘cobbler’s bench’ version. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-goes-the-weasel/703623/7 "2014-11-05T22:21:38Z")
“Let’s put Mr. Hamster in the microwave… haw, haw, pop goes the weasel!” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-goes-the-weasel/703623/8 "2014-11-06T15:33:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Re: The article. > > ‘Mulberry bush’? I never heard that version. Born and raised in Southern California, I only heard the ‘cobbler’s bench’ version. Ditto the born and raised, but I only heard the “mulberry bush” version. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-goes-the-weasel/703623/9 "2014-11-07T02:40:57Z")
I learned the cobbler’s bench version first, and then heard the other one, but assumed it was because they got it mixed up with “[Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_We_Go_Round_the_Mulberry_Bush).”